skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes you just need a blank webpage to look at so you can think and chill out in between projects. The HTML page, Title and Favicon are all in dark mode. There are two parts to this:

• HTML Webpage

• Favicon

The HTML Webpage uses simple code to create a "dark mode" page. It points to a black colored Favicon, so the tab will be in dark mode as well. The HTML title, which appears on the browser tab, is also blank, with the following code:

<title>&#65279;</title>
How to setup:

1. Decide where you will store the two files (HTML and Favicon). I recommend My Documents.

2. Change the below code in the HTML file to reflect the directory where you will store the Favicon:

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/Users/name/Documents/favicon.ico">
3. Put the HTML file in the same directory as the Favicon.

4. Rename the HTML file as you wish.

5. In your browser, set the Homepage to the HTML file that you renamed.

6. Make sure your browser is set to display the homepage icon.

7. Click the homepage icon and enjoy a few moments of quiet thinking..
My understanding is that waxed cotton isn’t nearly as waterproof as plastic wear, but more like very water resistant. I have no direct experience with it - just what I’ve seen others report.
So did the wages, and those went down more. If you lost a job during that time, you're pretty screwed.
>And two, because to name a few of the more well known dictators; Hitler, Stalin, Mao and more recently the Kim's, all did, or do just fine without number plate readers.

We're all doomed.

>What happens to training and selection budgets that weed out the racists, misogynists, bullies and the like.

No such mechanisms exist. They were talked about during any planning sessions, they weren't requested or required by the legislators. They weren't designed, tested, or implemented. In fact, police academies and similar systems probably select for bullies, racists, and misogynists. I don't say this lightly, the few anecdotes that come out of those places certainly support the idea, and the results don't seem to contradict it in the slightest.

Only a deliberately cultivated naivete and some serious distance from these institutions could have one believing such mechanisms exist.
Greek here. I would NOT want to associate in any way with a site named Touvlo, even if it is used in a joking manner. Too offensive! For a non native speaker, ignorance is bliss. But once they found out what Touvlo really means, i still bet they would feel cheated, and/or embarrassed. Therefore in both cases, it's a no go. Just my 2 cents.
Obviously. Which is why 20:1 leverage (5% down) is kind of foolish, since you can quickly become underwater on a house purchase if the value shifts. At 5:1 leverage though, you still maintain enough equity to weather any valuation swings if you have a need to leave and sell the house.
I think the context of “should” matters quite a bit here. For example the claim that everyone should have free access as if by right is quite different than the claim that as the producer of said software this is your best bet.
If you want a _really_ cheap alternative cloud, look at vast.ai. Not sure you can beat their prices, and they have 4090s and 3090s if you can use those. Something like RunPod might be second place for pricing.
As an experienced c++ programmer, I just write TypeScript without semicolons. /troll?
I tutored a C++ beginners course on Linux a few times. I have had people ask me for help because the error messages were so long, their terminal history wasn't large enough to scroll back to the first error. Even if you have basic bash skills, just piping the compiler output to less or head also doesn't work, because the errors go to stderr. It's an incredible source of frustration for beginners.
Buy a European car then. The GDPR exists to protect people from this.

Also, I think the article leaves out why companies want your data. Which is because they really want to find out what people are doing with their cars. The car industry is highly competitive and cars are expensive to develop and you actually want to make the car people want. In the EU this requires things like anonymizing user data and needing opt in consent for data transfer (companies will honor the GDPR if at all possible to avoid major legal problems).
No, not HN echo chamber. 83% of CIOs want to move workloads back to on-prem or private cloud.

https://x.com/michaeldell/status/1780672823167742135?s=46&t=...
This also reminds me a little of Kialo (with a canonical holy war of Vim vs Emacs, of course: https://www.kialo.com/vim-vs-emacs-19293)
That is just the mortgage. I assume that you also defaulted on media and anything else you had on credit, such as student loans.

And those do not have such nice terms either.
One thing I learned from the california wildfires, after buying an indoor air quality monitor, was that doing something as innocuous as baking a pizza in an ELECTRIC oven was enough to spike the AQI PM 2.5 air quality to 400, briefly (15 min) in our 1200 sq ft unit. In the bay area PM2.5 outdoors usually hovers between 5 and 35, with 75 being roughly when haze is noticeable at longer distances. 300+ is what happens when certain international cities have days-long fireworks festivals. I was measuring 400 with an electric oven cooking a frozen pizza from safeway.

Unless it's 115F outside or driving rain sideways onto the window, it's almost always wise to crack a window when cooking. Food throws off a ton of stuff, smoke and various compounds.
the US has more startups than VCs can support
The best way IMO is still (somehow) a 4chan-style linear timeline, with heavy UI affordances to make following >-ref’s simple. This application (and HN, and Reddit) go with the “threads on threads on threads” tree, which is awful for when you want to respond to a specific subset of replies to the same parent comment at once.

How could it be improved? I say embrace the DAG nature of the beast and allow for selecting a specific set of parent nodes a comment is in reply to, and, importantly, make that set editable so when some other person comes in and replies to a comment with a topic that has already been discussed, you can link your earlier replay to that new parent without needing a “see my reply here” comment.
I remember when first reading the story thinking, that I can resolve the question "Where am I" easily because of my experience with video games.

When I play a first-person video game, and someone behind me looks at my screen and asks me, "Where are you?", I don't say "In a chair playing a game". I say "I'm in such-and-such room on a space station" or whatever.

This made me think that "Where am I" depends on the spatial coordinates your inputs (eyes, ears) are picking up. In an every day case it's wherever my eyeballs are, in a video game case it's the setting of the video game, and Daniel Dennet's case it's wherever his eyeballs are.

This works for videogames but not TV. So the brain must be able to control the inputs.

This also works for the "Tom and Dick switch brains" thought experiment in the story. After the switch, Tom is wherever the eyeballs that are communicating with his brains are, which is to say wherever Dick's body is.
What would be different in this situation if the person were renting? Usually costs are similar per month for comparable places. I guess the down payment is a difference? But if you’re that far in arrears on rent you’re really still bad off…

I don’t feel convinced that having a mortgage debt is that much worse than not having one, if you lose your job and war and other bad things.
It's horrible horrible pricing! Their on demand price for A100 is what gets you H100 sxm in other places.
I wonder how well the engineering/product would've gone, in that case, without that productivity-measuring flavor of leadership being asserted.
While there is some "leverage" in mortgage, you actually need to pay the whole sum, and with interest too, so taking a $200k loan means you pay usually something like $250k for it in the end, and this means you have to make $50k profit to not lose. And houses age too. If the location is superb you can justify it as an investment, otherwise it's pure nonsense in every way. Thinking normal housing as an investment is one of those reasons why we can't have nice things.
did they reinvent email threading
great lecture
Well, an MBA that wants to promote their relative might need that "complicated but irrelevant problem" solved as a kind of "cover your ass" paper trail.
They lost nothing by you not using their free trial again tho you are the kind of user that we all try to avoid
In high humidity environments you need the sunlight to help dry the clothing quickly enough so that bacteria doesn't start to form in the cotton weave. Because even if it gets dry, the minute you begin to sweat wearing that item, it'll stink.

In low humidity your cotton clothing will dry quickly enough that this doesn't happen.
> In CQ2, there's no mess of unorganised comments — create threads inside threads so that each thread stays on topic and organised.

Wish this could work, but my experience is that getting people to use even the first layer of threads is very difficult, especially non-technical people.

IMO most often complex discussions will devolve into a "let's just jump on a quick call to settle this", for better or worse.

The feature I am looking forward to the most in comminication apps is having a machine learning model listen to those "quick calls", generate summary and action items and post them right back in the thread. You get the benefits of both worlds that way.
It is a difficult adjustment for us here, especially for older generations, the change has been very dramatic.

"unhelpful" is a mild expression of discomfort
What are folk's experiences with alternative cloud GPUs for inference?

If you're doing a lot of model training, buying GPUs or long-term reservations of GPUs is a no-brainer. But when it comes to inference, latency matters and it gets trickier talking between e.g. your AWS infra and your GPUs somewhere else.

It seems lots of providers can give you enough to get by doing inference in a company's earliest stages. But what if I need hundreds or thousands of A100s during peak usage? Is anyone doing this successfully with a non-hyperscaler?
Does this assume retail price? Maybe they are getting a discount for buying in bulk
Time boxes in software development are a delusion. There's a reason why the entire industry shifted focus from outputs to outcomes when it comes to software engineering.
The number of crypto people who took up AI is truly remarkable, and makes me that much more wary of AI.
SHOW HN:I made a tool to search and sort Amazon WH deals (Svelte/Supabase/Bash)
Hello everyone,

As many of you here I'm a fruit of the tech world and have been deep in the solopreneur journey for almost 2 years now. To break from the long development cycles of my other projects I wanted to try putting this one here very early on and also provide visibility on tech stack, roadmap and strategy for folks to pick on.

WHAT: A website to see, filter and sort through Amazon Warehouse deals easily. Limited to US market for now but will add coverage as I go.

WHY: Convenience and Affordability. This came from a personal frustration of not being able to browse efficiently across deals while on Amazon's website. They have a bazillion refurbished or like new items available but no good way to search and sort them out without clicking through individual pages. After building a prototype for my friends and family I realized most seemed to be able to find items of interest for much cheaper than they were expecting. That's when I got the idea to open up this project externally to get ideas/feedback to iterate on and hopefully help folks find cheaper alternatives before buying anything.

HOW: The design revolves around 3 key pieces: - A set of headed workers running 24/7 to identify and collect Amazon Warehouse deals - A backend to store and serve the deals - A responsive frontend for users to interact with

Tech stack:
Backend:
- Core: Nodejs via PM2 + Bash
- Workers: Proxmox VMs behind rotating VPNs
- Database: PostgreSQL (via Supabase)

Frontend:
- Core: Sveltekit
- CSS: Tailwind CSS
- UI Framework: Shadcn-svelte
- Testing: Playwright
- CDN, DNS & Hosting: Cloudflare
- Analytics: Plausible

WHERE: https://amznbargains.com

BUT WHAT'S MY GOAL HERE? Obviously this is not a multi-million dollar idea. I'd simply like to get this solution to a point where it provides service to many users for free with no compromise on privacy or UX while ideally being self-sustained. Building foundations: - The only source of revenue will be through the Associate Program as it comes at no cost to users and requires no data to be collected/exchanged. - No registration required to get service. - No personal data ever stored or even less exchanged/resold. - No ads, commercial collaboration or algo biased by monetary incentives. - Plausible could be seen as going against some of the above but has been selected because it allows me to track the few metrics required to run the app (i.e. referer, country of origin) while respecting stringent privacy guidelines.

WANT MORE? On top of this thread, I've opened access to the project's roadmap/backlog and created a discord server to discuss there if simpler. Not sure if against any rules if I share the links here but you can find them easily on the website. If allowed I'll add them here in another comment.

Thank you for reading through this wall, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
Latest carbon dioxide leak raises concerns about safety, regulation
Wouldn't it work if you did

2>&1

as part of the redirect?
I think hypothetical/magic micropayments that just work(TM) actually solve lots of problems. The problem is with the “realistic” part, which is why it always comes up.
I want to see better support for non-Unicode character sets in terminal emulators.
> Believe it or not, it’s entirely possible to scroll past a trivial opinion or comment and move on.

It's also possible to not have to broadcast your entire life publicly on social media platforms. It's sad that social media obsession is what end stage Internet looks like. But it makes sense: we're social creatures and a 3-year-long pandemic didn't help.

I myself have deactivated almost all of my social media and dating apps. It's difficult since so much of our lives are online these days, but connections I make in real life, over coffee or a cocktail, tend to be much more rewarding.
Yes, I like to call the style Procedural Composition. The key characteristics are no logic with IO, and all system functions are assembled from higher-order middleware functions. This is the way ring, the web framework, and various client libraries like clj-http work. One of the best ways to get familiar with it is to look at the ring libraries.

What this allows one to do is assemble handlers from lots of small higher order functions. It has the downside of one needing to have initialization well organized and thought out. But the fractal-cul-sac as one co-worker has nicknamed it of ever dividing and increasingly specialized functions with IO and logic twisted together is effectively prevented. One can always modify one handler without affecting others or changing how existing functionality works. And it is always testable in small unit tests because the logic is pure.

Systems built in this style can radically reform themselves in a controllable, reliable and consistent way indefinitely. They are immune to the "apogee" phenomena whereby a system gets to the size and fragility where it can no longer be modified without causing unforeseen regressions, triggering the need to rewrite it to move it forward.

This style is for handler-oriented procedural software common in web services etc. It does not apply to embedded state-machine oriented software that operates real-time control etc. That is a different problem space.
I find the existence of the "narrator" to be utterly debasing of the thought experiment.

Apply Dennett's deconstructions to the author and ask yourself why are you interested in this thesis of indeterminacy of the self when you've already a priori accepted and endorsed Dennett's existence though your consideration of his story on its own terms. Simply apply the same logic you used to accept the source to acceptance of yourself.

Is the dislocation of Dennett's brain from his body a genuinely marvelous feature of the scenario when the scenario is just in your own mind, already a totally displaced manifestation of Dennett's?

Maybe you are not sure that Dennett exists (apparently he actually doesn't) in which case what's going on in this thread: Is it all thoughts from no one mechanically clicking in the machine of "your" own mind?

How can there be a reasoned discussion of a topic the author himself has totally debased?

More troublingly, this response is no more meaningful, don't bother trying to respond because there's no one to respond to! Yet you're stuck with the chaotic intrusion from no one to no one.

If Dennett somehow transcends his scenario, of which there is universal agreement on this forum that he does because even in death his existence is unquestioned, this whole scene is a fright.

Ultimately, why will you allow his scenario to debase your own commonsense, unless there's a greater wisdom of the self to be learned and mastered?

Maybe there is!

So let's look at Dennett himself: he happily maintained he was Dennett his entire life and is consummately well known as such.

QED
I like the concept. What I would want to see is a clear path to reaching consensus documents.

Comments-upon-comments makes it hard to get an idea of what the overall consensus is. You pretty much need to read all of it and explore every comment thread to understand what are the generally agreed parts and what are the more controversial takes(?).

Maybe some hybrid between this and Wikipedia?
The first time the deep net needs to load. I should add a progress of some sort. Thanks
It’s a security/commodity, not a currency.
Because race is an important dimension that is a pretty good proxy for a lot of things in this country. It runs deep in the experience of nearly every African American, whose voting power as a block have systematically been curtailed by intentional and racist actions of others.

I do “class” is the bigger grouping, but race is important and correlated with socioeconomics.
I think the ease of switching between multiple programming languages comes with experience.

I used to have similar issues with it, but now it's a relatively seamless compartment/context change. I sometimes forget super basic function names or something and need to Google/ChatGPT it. Stupid stuff like len() for Python after working in JS all morning.
TL;DR:

- Heavy import tariffs

- US crash safety standards are high enough to double the price of existing Chinese models

- The cars are much smaller than the ones that sell in America

- The Chinese government heavily subsidizes production and inputs

- China is willing to, uh, suppress human rights violations in the supply chain
T2 Linux 24.5 Released for 25 architectures
When it comes to free advertising/exposure as compensation I think back to my early days on the Oregon Trail:

You can die from exposure.
Dashdoc | Backend engineer | ONSITE | Full-time | France (Paris, Nantes)

We're building a next generation software platform for the freight trucking industry which is in great need of innovation!

Lots of interesting challenges, great team!

We're looking for a senior backend engineer and an integrations engineer. Please check us out if you like being autonomous and want to have an impact on the product. We work with the shape up method (no scrum!). You can find some articles about how we work on our blog: https://medium.com/dashdoc

Senior backend engineer: https://dashdoc.welcomekit.co/companies/dashdoc/jobs/senior-...
Integrations engineer: https://dashdoc.welcomekit.co/companies/dashdoc/jobs/softwar...
Yes. AWS Advance Pay.
If you love "everyday objects from the 20th century, especially electrical appliances" and are in Valencia, Spain, then checkout the Alfaro Hofmann Collection which has some lovely Braun pieces shown in the context of many other designs:
https://www.alfarohofmann.com/en/holdings/s?filtered=1&fabri...
This is an awesome list with many things I’d never thought of! Thanks for taking the time to write it out. Seems like requirements for the gardening user and the houseplant user vary pretty substantially!
Pipe to command-line LLM: https://justine.lol/oneliners/
This article is almost irrelevant because here we are in 2024, barreling towards a future where there are approximately zero real journalists, and all news is written by an LLM. No reader wants this, but it’s clear it’s coming and it’s coming soon.
Not trying to be pedantic, just curious.

Money isn't zero sum right? Like the U.S. Government prints it and spends it, so its not clear to me that there is a balance sheet of cash being someone elses debt. Unless its in a metaphorical sense like we're all in "debt" to the U.S government and we pay interest when they inflate more money.
Show HN: Pictero – a playground for text-2-image generation on HF
I want to show you a small side project: https://pictero.com

It's a playground for all those text-2-image models that Huggingface is offering. I am playing around with them for a while now and sometimes, for other sideprojects, I am using them to create small illustrations. In the beginning I find it quite confusing to read through all the docs and connect the dots, because the docs sometimes does not really follow a straight path, and most demos does not always explain all those parameters. That's why I was building this interface: To make the setup easier and hopefully a little easier to understand.

I added a couple of well known HF models as a starter, but it's quite easy to add more because the interface is "generic".

It also supports adapters (textual inversions or multiple LoRAs) to "infuse" the process with fine-tuned models. And of course there are schedulers/solvers to select from.

Well, there are lot of other parameters and last but not least it has a sharing feature to keep track of your "settings" (via a GET-parameter in the URL) as well as a code area, that shows you the code for your current setup so you can easily paste and run it anywhere else.

A little tech background: It's running on free space right now, so it's probably quite slow. I recommend to clone it locally. I am using the Gradio library which is a perfect companion if you want to create prototypes at HF. I had to implement a little workaround to keep settings persistens in the local cookie storage. Gradio does not really supports that.

(don't check the history of the domain, it's my "garbage domain" that I am using for all kind of private projects - well, I bet now you gonna check the history, I warned you)
Are there any plans to support your on demand cloud in the future? In the past few months there are basically no GPUs available.

My understanding is that your reserved cloud starts at 64 GPUs (8 pods) and with quite a long reservation time frame.
https://www.sciencealert.com/life-blossomed-when-earths-magn...
Well, I'm sorry to report we've had the first breach in that policy in ... well forever!

https://www.theverge.com/24148033/satya-nadella-microsoft-se...
Possibly it, or at least related?

https://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue18/misc/origin.html
Can freezing bread make it healthier?
Did anyone else find this post confusing? To me this looks like a sideways change, not a forward one.
My understanding is that it's not a matter of figuring it out, it's a choice to not support it.
Nobody said that espressif steals IP from ST.
That's a little flip.

When one visits South Bend, I would guess there are zero posters commemorating when they were ranked #1 and lost the last game of the season to an unranked Boston College.